Disappearing bed.



E. S. MOWHINNEY.

DISAPPEARING BED.

APPLICATION FILED rmm, 1914.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

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E. S. MoWHINNEY.

DISAPPEARING BED.

APPLICATION FILED FEH.2,1914.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

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THE NORRIS PETERS C0,, PHOTOLITHOH WASHINGIUN. Dv C ,tach the parts,

EDWIN S. MOWHINNEY, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

DISAPPEARING BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

Application filed February 2, 1914. Serial No. 816,055,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Enwnv S. MoWH N- NnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city and county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Disappearing Beds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in disappearing beds, and is more particularly designed to produce an especially constructed means of mounting the bed, so that the same may be installed in any position in a room, without the necessity of securing the same within the recess of a wall or other similar support. In beds of this character, commonly known as disappearing wall beds, it has heretofore been necessary struct and arrange the working parts that they might be attached within the recess of a wall or a containing cabinet where the bed proper has to be secured to a support, whether in its open or closed position, which does not permit of the bed being removed to another position in the room, or to be installed in its proper position without the assembling or disassemblingof a number of parts, requiring the attention of employees especially skilled in that fiel By my present invention, however, it 1s primarily designed to provide such a support for the folding bed that the same may be secured at any position in a room by any unskilled person, and might be properly installed by farmers, or other classes of people living away from cities, without any trouble whatsoever.

Another important feature of the invention is that the bed may be crated for ship- .ment as a unitary assembled piece in a folded state, and readily shipped as one package, without any danger of any of its parts becoming broken or lost.

Another feature of the invention is that the bed, in its completed form, may be handled by dealers and sold to parties in such condition that the purchaser may install the same without employing any especially skilled person to properly assemble and atenabling the dealer to sell to the public at a cheaper price than heretofore a bed of equal if not greater efiiciency.

These desirable ends are obtained by virto so contue of the particular form of standards or side brackets and the method of mounting is formed a unitary assembled construction of both bed and mountings, whereby the.

same may be shipped as one package and readily installed by the purchaser, without any reassembling and without any skilled assistants, at any desired position in a room, and, in the accomplishing of this end by my invention, I have produced a bed that, is not only simple and durable in construction, but is cllicient inaction and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

It will be readily apparent that in beds of this character, it is of great importance, both to dealer and purchaser, that such an articlecan be sold directly to the purchaser,

delivered to him, and then set up by him when and wherever he wishes it.

With these and other objects inview, the invention, therefore, consists of the novel arrangement and combination of parts, which 1 will more fully appear from the following description, and the essential features of a novelty will be more particularly andysuccinctly pointed out in the appended claim. It will be obvious, however, that minor structural equivalents maybe employed without departing from the spirit of the invention, and without sacrificing any of the vitalprinciples thereof, and, while the invention is not limited, therefore, to the exact details shown and described, still for the purpose of disclosure reference is had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating a practical embodiment of the same, in which drawings like characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which 1 Figure 1 is ajview in side elevation, the

bed frame being partly broken away to save space,,and one of the standards or brackets being broken away centrally to show the pivotal connection between the upper and lower portions of the headboard of the bed;

Fig. 2 is an elevation view of the inside of one of the standards or brackets; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the bed in its folded position, parts being broken away; Fig. 4 is a top plan view of an angle-iron construction for laterally bracing the lower ends of the standards; Fig. 5 is a frag1nentary sectional View, taken on the line 55 of Fig. 1, and showing one of the rollers or pintles of the bed frame slidingly engaging one of the standards inside its guide-way; and Fig. 6 is a detail sectional View, taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1, and showing the roller connection between the upper portion of the head-board and the inclined guideway or slot of one of the standards.

The baseof the bed frame proper may be of any suitable construction, shown in the drawings as comprising a pair of side rails 1, having at their outer ends upwardly-pro jecting lugs 2, on which are mounted a transverse angle bar 3, and on this angle bar 3 are seated properly shaped lugs 4-, which are, in turn, secured to vertical side rails of a foot-board 5, the lugs being suitably secured to the transverse angle bar 3. The foot-board is provided with the usual pair of supporting legs 6, pivotally connected to the foot-board, as at 7, and provided with a brace rod 8. 9 and 10 of Fig. 3 simply show the lower and upper cross rails of the footboard.

At the inner end of the bed frame, there is provided a folding head-board having a lower section 11. rigidly mounted and secured to a transverse angle bar 3 which, in turn, is carried by and properly secured to vertical lugs 2 onthe side bars 1, substantially similar to the lugs 2 at the other end of the frame. 1 (Fig. 1) merely show tension or tie members helping to brace the lower portion of the bed frame. These, however, are merely details of construction, and are particularly referred to to designate the parts on the drawings more clearly. The head-board is also provided with an upper section, comprising the vertical side rails 12, and top and bottom transverse rails 13 and 14, shown in Fig. 3. The upper section of the headboard is pivotally connected at its lower end, as at 15, andboth the upper section of the head-board and the side rails of the bed frame are provided on each side with a projection or roller 16 and 17, respectively, shown more clearly in full lines in Figs. 5 and 6, which rollers respectively engage proper guide-ways located on the inside faces of a housing and support for the inner end of the bed comprising vertical standards or brackets, which will now be particularly described, and which standards, in combination with the connection between them and the bed proper, form the essential features of the present invention.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 1

following the direction of the inclined portion 20 and terminating in'a vertical guideway 22, the lower and upper portions thereof forming an angular guide-way, having a lower vertical section and an upwardly inclined upper portion. In the drawings, this guide-way is simply shown as comprising a channel or groove, cast integrally with the standard, as more clearly shown in Fig. 2.

Similarly, there is provided on the inside face of the base portion of each of said standards a track 28, preferably of the form shown in Fig. 2, and consistingof a central portion 23 curving inwardly and upwardly from the bottom of the standard to a position substantially in alinement with the base of the bed frame, when in its lowered position, and terminating in an upper transversely disposed pocket 24, and the lower end of the track 23 terminating in an upwardly disposed seat or pocket 25. As clearly shown in the drawings, the pintles or rollers 16 engage within the channels or guide-ways 21 and 22, while the pintles or rollers 17, on the bed frame, engage the tracks 23, and further description of these features is not believed to be essential in view of a statement of the mode of operation, which will follow.

The castings or standards are provided with inturned flanged bases 26, forming feet, through means of which the standards may be securely attached to a floor, and transversely disposed between the rearward pair of flanges, there extends an angle bar con struction, shown conventionally in Fig. 4, and consisting of an angle bar having a vertical wall 27 and a lower horizontal wall 28, said angle bar being securely bolted to said base flanges, as at 29. Bolted to said horizontal wall 28, and diverging outwardly, is a pair of strut bars 30, which, in turn, are secured to the forward pairs of flanges or feet 26. In Fig. 3, there is also shown a pair of bars 31, bolted at their lower ends to the vertical wall 27, as shown at 32, and which bars, at their upper ends, are suitably bolted or secured, as at 33, to said standards, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. This whole construction forms a very strong brace for holding the standards together, enabling the bed to be self contained therein, whether in its folded or unfolded position, and whether being set up in position or being shipped, preventing any displacement of the standards relative to the bed frame'proper. 34

designates a pair of links pivotally secured at their lower ends to said standards, and, at their upper ends, pivotally secured to the bed frame, as at 85, and actingto form a fulcrum when elevating or lowering the bed. It will also be understood that the inner end of the bedframe is weighted, which, together with the weight of the headboard, assists inraising the bed when the outer end of the bed frame is elevated.

In operation, assuming that the standards have been secured to the floor, and the bed beingin its open position, upon raising the outer end of the bed, the rollers 17, which have been seated and supported in the transverse pockets 2 1, ride out and are guided by the tracks 23, the bed being swung upwardly on the pivoting links 34L. At the same time, the lower section 11 of the head-board gradually moves through 90 degrees, but, during this movement, the rollers. 16 on the upper section '12 of the head-board ride downwardly in the inclined slots 21, thence downwardly into the vertical slots 22, and, owing to the pivotal connection 15 between the lower and upper sections 11 and 12 of the head-board, the upper section 12 of the head-board is not swung outwardly through an angle of 90 degrees, but moves downwardly in a vertical position while being,

moved rearwardly as the bed is swung up until the parts reach the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. When the bed is thus folded up, it will be seen that the legs 6 of the fOOlZ-liOt'ti'Cl are folded in a position to rest outside the rails 1 of the bed, so that the whole arrangement is contained within the very small area of the standards 18. In

lowering the bed, the parts move in the reverse order.

From the foregoing description of the parts and the mode of operation, it will be seen that by my invention I have produced a disappearing bed and mountings therefor, which are self contained and portable as a unitary structure, and which may be readily secured to a floor in any desired position and without assembling any of its parts and without necessitating the services of one skilled in setting up beds of this type, as heretofore constructed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

In a disappearing bed and mountings therefor, the combination of a pair of portable side-incasing standards adapted to be secured directly to the floor; a bed frame; means pivotally connecting the body of said bed frame to said standards; tracks mounted on the inside face of said standards provided with a rearwardly disposed upper pocket and an upwardly disposed lower pocket; and projections mounted on said bed frame adjacent the inner end thereof and engaging said tracks, the whole forming a unitary portable structure and cooperating to incasc the inner end of said bed frame within the confines of said standards when folded up, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses. EDWIN S. MolVI-IINNEY.

Witnesses Clrns'rna E. \VARNna, J S. GUISTA.

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Washington, D. C. 

